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Steve's Journey
05:45
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Stephen decided to go on a journey
He took a bag of provisions
And a map
With a route marked out
But from the outset
It seemed to Steve
That the places he visited
Never quite matched the things on the map
He would arrive at a city
But the map suggested a smaller town
Or a fork in the road
But a crossroads was marked
And as Steve traveled onwards
It seemed to him
That things were getting
Further and further out of sync
At the side of a lake
Still and flat
The map would show
A tall mountain
When he arrived at a hotel
With spires and balconies
The map read:
“Military Installation”
Steve decided to hire a car
Perhaps if he could move faster
He could catch up with things
And correct the mismatch
Of course the map
Was no help at all
When he tried to find
A car hire place
Steve got in
And moved off at speed
But if anything
Things got worse
The map showed
A series of towns and cities
But Steve just traveled on
Through endless empty desert
Here is a mountain
Snow-capped and majestic
But at the coordinates
A flat plain and the sign for a church
Here is a city
Filled with glass skyscrapers
But on the grid
A rocky cove and a deserted peninsula
As time went on
Steve checked the map less frequently
But at the same time
He checked the landscape less as well
He knew he couldn’t trust
The map to make sense
But Steve felt
He couldn’t trust the landscape either
Now Steve only travels at night
All he can see
Is the illuminated highway
And the signs flashing past
He disposed of the map
A long long time ago
And he chooses turnings
By instinct alone
He doesn’t bother
To read the signs
He doesn’t think
They would help
And he’s not even sure
If he slowed down
He would be able
To read the signs at all
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2. |
Inside the Sun
06:20
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Inside the sun
Inside the sun
We took the smallest thing
As small as small can be
We made it bigger
We took the darkest thing
As dark as dark can be
We made it brighter
Inside my room
Inside the sun
We took the sharpest thing
Its edge so honed and bright
We made it blunter
We took the finest thing
So elegant and graceful
We made it cruder
–
Inside my town
Inside the sun
We found a quiet thing
So quiet and small
We filled it with noise
We found a shaded place
Hidden from sight
We marked it out
Inside my nation
Inside the sun
–
Inside the sun
Inside the sun
The empty space
We filled it up
We filled it up
The quiet place
We filled it up
We filled it up
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3. |
The Voynich Brothers
07:23
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I got the call on Tuesday
I went down to the docks
To see the Voynich brothers
Meatface and Gumby
Gumby took me round to see the equipment
It was dark in the heart of the warehouse
There were sparks and arcs of electricity
There were glass jars and large retorts
In the biggest one, I could see Eric
“He gave himself to science,” said Gumby
I agreed but avoided Eric’s stare
Meatface turned up and took over
He led me to a large armchair
High-backed, with leather and plump upholstery
I ignored the wires emerging from the back
Meatface indicated where I should sit
I shuffled up
I didn’t feel I could refuse
Afterward, once I had stopped screaming
And I was still enough that the restraints could be unbuckled
I felt quite different
Lighter, happier even
I discovered I could transform the world around me
I could turn paper into cheese
And delicate electronic equipment into fishes
I could even turn the fishes into buttons
But only shirt buttons
I decided to go home and reflect upon these things
Perhaps now I could make a difference
And people would take me seriously
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